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Kubernetes

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Kubernetes is the Accepted Platform for Cloud Native Computing

Although technically best described as a container orchestration engine, Kubernetes is rapidly becoming the infrastructure platform for cloud native computing, an approach to using public or private clouds in the most flexible way possible.

With this approach, the general idea is to put your applications within containers and then manage them against available resources using Kubernetes. Beyond orchestration itself, Kubernetes as a platform solves a lot of enterprise IT issues, including service discovery, application invocation, logging, monitoring, replicas and backups, and, of course, flexibility.

Containers + Kubernetes Ease Application Deployment

Containers also allow organizations to streamline the development process, for a seamless, and often automated, transition between the developer and the production deployment. Containers free up developers to use whatever languages and frameworks they prefer, given the ability to package all the dependencies for these specific choices within the container itself.

On the operations side, Kubernetes allows operators to make the best use of available resources, by moving around containers, or having them automatically moved around, to best match the optimal performance and price.

Kubernetes also promises to provide a path forward for multicloud operations. By this time, organizations have acclimated to the fact that, in many cases, cloud computing is the best way to handle IT operations. But each of the cloud providers offers its own unique interfaces, posing a danger that a customer’s operations may be “locked” into that specific provider.

Developed by Google, Now Supported by All Major Cloud Providers

Google first created Kubernetes based on its own software for managing containers, called The Borg. The company had already been using containers in its own operations for well over a decade and so company engineers had plenty of expertise and best practices in hand when designing this new software, which was released as open source in 2014 and is now hosted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.

Now offered as a service by all the major cloud providers, Kubernetes provides, through a set of APIs, an abstraction that allows users to potentially mix and match cloud services.

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Kubernetes / Technology

VMware Introduces Essential PKS for Custom Kubernetes Deployments

26 Feb 2019 8:29am, by Susan Hall

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25 Feb 2019 11:55am, by Mary Branscombe

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25 Feb 2019 8:16am, by Susan Hall

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Cloud Native / Kubernetes / Sponsored

Kubernetes: Steering the Ship with Cloud Native Management

25 Feb 2019 7:57am, by Jim Bugwadia

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Cloud Native / Kubernetes / Microservices / Networking / Service Mesh / Sponsored

Why Service Meshes, Orchestrators Are Do or Die for Cloud Native Deployments

22 Feb 2019 10:16am, by Zach Jory

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Kubernetes / Serverless / Sponsored

How Knative Can Unite Kubernetes and Serverless

22 Feb 2019 9:30am, by Twain Taylor

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Data / Edge / IoT / Kubernetes / Sponsored

War Stories about Edge Computing on Kubernetes

21 Feb 2019 3:00pm, by B. Cameron Gain

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Cloud Native / Kubernetes

Google’s Cloud Services Platform Brings Managed Kubernetes to the Hybrid Cloud

20 Feb 2019 9:00am, by Mike Melanson

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Kubernetes / Contributed

7 Key Considerations for Kubernetes in Production

20 Feb 2019 3:00am, by Vamsi Chemitiganti and Peter Fray

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Containers / Kubernetes / Security / Sponsored

Guide for 2019: What to Consider About VMs and Kubernetes

18 Feb 2019 10:52am, by Joe Fernandes

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Kubernetes / Storage

How Portworx Solves the Problem of Running Stateful Workloads in Containers

8 Feb 2019 3:00am, by Janakiram MSV

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Kubernetes / Networking / Technology

Rancher Supports Running Apps Across Multiple Kubernetes Clusters

5 Feb 2019 10:04am, by Susan Hall

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CI/CD / Cloud Native / Kubernetes / Technology / Sponsored

Cloud Native DevOps with Jenkins X

4 Feb 2019 3:27pm, by B. Cameron Gain

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DevOps / Kubernetes / Machine Learning

OpsRamp Brings AIOps to Kubernetes Environments

31 Jan 2019 12:34pm, by Mike Melanson

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Culture / Kubernetes / Sponsored

A Day in the Life of a Rancher Engineer

30 Jan 2019 3:02pm, by B. Cameron Gain

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Data / Kubernetes / Technology

How Periscope Uses Kubernetes to Power Data Science Services

29 Jan 2019 3:00pm, by TC Currie

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Kubernetes / Security

StackRox Adds Kubernetes-Specific Security Capabilities

23 Jan 2019 11:53am, by Susan Hall

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Containers / Kubernetes / Sponsored

Harbor, ‘The Best Registry for Kubernetes’

22 Jan 2019 3:00pm, by B. Cameron Gain

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Data / Kubernetes / Microservices

Database Operators Bring Stateful Workloads to Kubernetes

22 Jan 2019 7:50am, by Joab Jackson

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Culture / Kubernetes / Sponsored

Why You Really Can (and Should) Be a Kubernetes Mentor

21 Jan 2019 12:08pm, by B. Cameron Gain

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Containers / Kubernetes / Security

Kubernetes and the Return of the Virtual Machines

17 Jan 2019 3:00pm, by Joab Jackson

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Kubernetes / Microservices / Monitoring

LogicMonitor Shifts to Kubernetes Monitoring

17 Jan 2019 6:00am, by Mike Melanson

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Cloud Native / Kubernetes / Storage / Technology / Sponsored

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Showed the Benefits of Open Source Development

14 Jan 2019 3:00pm, by B. Cameron Gain

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Cloud Native / Cloud Services / Kubernetes / Microservices / Serverless / Sponsored

Two CEOs Describe What the Cloud Really Offers Them  

10 Jan 2019 3:00pm, by B. Cameron Gain

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Cloud Native / Kubernetes / Monitoring / Sponsored

Fluentd’s Role as a Data Collector in Today’s Cloud Native World

9 Jan 2019 3:00pm, by B. Cameron Gain

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Kubernetes / Storage / Sponsored

How T-Mobile Deployed Portworx for Flexible Storage

8 Jan 2019 11:02am, by TNS Staff

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